Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath Negotiating Alliance and Balancing Giants /

• Main Author: McCann, Frank D. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; America-History.; World War, 1939-1945.; World politics.; Diplomacy.; Latin American History.; History of the Americas.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Political History.

The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war. In this definitive account, Frank McCann investigates Brazilian-American military relations from the 1930s through the year...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Relationship of Unbalanced Giants
• 2. Pre-war Fears and Explorations
• 3. Search for Mutual Benefits
• 4. Brazil's Options Narrow
• 5. Decision to Fight
• 6. The Brazilian Expeditionary Force: The Smoking Cobras
• 7. Post-World War Disappointment
• 8. Cold Wind from the East.